We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age
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Welcome to the Drone Age. Where self-defense has become naked aggression. Where courage has become cowardice. Where black ops have become standard operating procedure. In this remarkable and often shocking book, Laurie Calhoun dissects the moral, psychological, and cultural impact of remote-control killing in the twenty-first century.
Can a drone operator conducting a targeted killing be likened to a mafia hitman? What difference, if any, is there between the Trayvon Martin case and the drone killing of a teen in Yemen?
We Kill Because We Can takes a scalpel to the dark heart of Western foreign policy in order to answer these and many other troubling questions.
Laurie Calhoun
Laurie Calhoun is a philosopher and cultural critic with a special interest in film as a source of moral insight. She is the author of War and Delusion: A Critical Examination and Philosophy Unmasked: A Skeptic’s Critique, in addition to dozens of essays on war, morality and politics.
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